March 2012
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SPIN: Hear Marriages' Muscular 'Ride In My Place'
From the threesome’s forthcoming debut, ‘Kitsune’
If first impressions are everything, Marriages are in great shape. Case in point: “Ride in My Place,” the opening gust from the trio’s forthcoming debut via Sargent House, Kitsune. All three members also share time in Los Angeleno post-rock collective Red Sparowes, an instrumental outfit that served as a...
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Subbacultcha: Feature on Chelsea Wolfe in The...
Chelsea Wolfe is featured in Subbacultcha’s “The Uncomfortable Issue” out now. Click on photos to enlarge All Photos by Logan White - CLICK TO SEE FULL SET
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NO TREBLE: Bassist Redefined an Interview with The...
Juan Alderete is a man who stays busy. After getting his break with thrash metal outfit Racer X, Alderete now contributes the low-end to progressive rock giants The Mars Volta, whose new album Noctourniquet hit stores this week. The record marks the band’s sixth effort anchored by Aldererte, who joined their ranks in 2003. The Mars Volta ‘Noctourniquet’ Additionally, Big Sir released...
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Indian Handcrafts at Sonic Boom // CMW 2012 //...
It was Barrie’s Indian Handcrafts turn to play at Sonic Boom during CMW 2012.This was my first time to finally see them play. Let’s say things got explosively loud within their set at the record store. I was really impressed with them. If you are into the indie loud alternative rock. This is a band you have to see live. They kind of remind me of Japandroids & PS I Love You when it comes to...
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Indian Handcrafts Record New Album In LA
Indian Handcrafts recorded most of their new album at Entourage studio, but then went on to do all the overdubs at the Melvins rehearsal space, and just look who came to hang out, the one and only Buzz. It was also real sweet to have Dale Crover play some drums to double on their new album recorded by Toshi Kasai . Uh, Melvins rule.
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Vancouver's Straight Feature:Good Old War looks on...
It’s a buoyant-sounding tune, carried along by three-part vocal harmonies afloat above a warm and inviting arrangement of ringing guitars and softly driving drums. By the time your toes are tapping, you might not notice the dark shading of the lyrics: the apocalyptically titled “Present for the End of the World” opens with the line “Pain, pain is in everything.” Like many of the other tracks that...
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Death Grips - The Fever (Aye Aye)
Death Grips - The Fever (Aye Aye) from “The Money Store” out April 24, 2012 on Epic Records - so much love for this crew! My man Zach Hill, Stefan and Andy killing it.
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Altar TV Presents: Good Old War Unplugged "Loud...
Interwoven throughout Good Old War’s catchy acoustic folk is lyrical themes of love, loss and letting go. This inspiration - mixed with a few drinks and a late night in LA - fueled what is now known as “Loud Love.” from their new album Come Back As Rain.
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USC's Neon Tommy: Good Old War in Los Angeles //...
A rainy Sunday in Los Angeles didn’t stop Good Old Warfrom putting on an unforgettable show filled with spontaneity, light-hearted banter, and plenty of crowd participation.
It was in fact an appropriate climate for the Philadelphia natives to promote their newly released album, Come Back as Rain, at the Avalon in Hollywood.
In a recent interview with Neon Tommy, guitarist and vocalist Dan...
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Sludge Factory: 7 Questions with Boris
Japanese quartet, Boris, will be heading to Australia next week. Ahead of their tour, Atsuo answered a couple of questions.
1. Do you guys ever fight or disagree, and if so what about? Atsuo: None at all these days. We had some long ago though as I was control freak. It is quite peaceful among us now, we have realised that democracy during song writing process is way wiser and it will lead...
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Verbicide Reports from SXSW on Gypsyblood &...
Then it was to the Bat Bar for Gypsyblood. When you listen to their records, you hear lots of softer single-note guitar riffs with complex time signatures and tempo changes in their rhythm section, as well as tricky vocal melodies — but when you hear Gypsyblood live, they rip your face off and chop you up into a million little pieces. and you can hardly recognize the songs, even when you know...
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Chelsea Wolfe Headline European Tour April 2012
Chelsea Wolfe and her band are off to Europe for their first Headlining tour. They will also be playing this year’s Roadburn Festival. Don’t miss them! CHELSEA WOLFE - EUROPEAN TOUR 2012 Apr 9, 2012 - London, (UK) @ The Old Blue Last Apr 10, 2012 - Bristol, (UK) @ The Thekla w/ 2:54 Apr 11, 2012 - Brighton, (UK) @ The Green Door Store w/ 2:54 Apr 12, 2012 - Tilburg, (NL) @...
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LA WEEKLY Interview Part II: The Mars Volta and At...
See the first part of the interview: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Is a Real Bastard
Our music feature this week focuses on Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, a giant of the progressive rock and post-hardcore scenes who seemingly wants nothing to do with them.
The mastermind behind The Mars Volta and At the Drive-In tries to tell us he’s not a musician, for all kinds of deep and philosophical reasons. He...
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Chelsea Wolfe Performs "Noorus" Live from SXSW /...
Chelsea Wolfe performs “Noorus” from the album The Grime And The Glow live from the Converse Rubber Tracks studio at SXSW in Austin.
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Dave Davison & Good Old War perform Maps & Atlases...
Dave Davison performs the Maps & Atlases track “Israeli Caves” at the Sargent House Glassroom accompanied by Good Old War who also performed on the album version of the song from Perch Patchwork. Video courtesy of Terroreyes.TV
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Torontoist CMW 2012 Profile: Indian Handcrafts
Torontoist talks to some CMW 2012 performers. Here we have Barrie’s “sons of sunn spawned by mothers of invention,” Indian Handcrafts. Usually, we have mixed feelings about good ol’ Canadian talent getting scooped up by American labels and drawn south of the border to seek larger, greener, richer pastures. But when the label is Sargent House, and its pastures include working...
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Hella has rad video making fans - Mark Ludgate...
a video for the band HELLA. the name says it all. it’s a mixture of animations I drew by hand and with software, put to the gut busting song ON THE RECORD
check out TRIPPER, as it’s a seriously powerful romp of an album - maximum pleasure! TRIPPER and more HELLA HERE
This video rules, thanks so much to Mark Ludgate for making it and letting us share it with everyone.
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LA WEEKLY Interview: The Mars Volta and At the...
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez wears the same thing every day: teal-colored jeans and a fitted canvas jacket. His eyes are intent behind his glasses; his focus is acute. For the bulk of his 35 years he’s been consumed with expressing his creative vision. Relentless in the pursuit of his own voice, he has alienated friends and collaborators. By his own admission, he’s behaved like a dictator.
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Blah Blah Blah Magazine Feature: Indian...
When I was originally asked to do up a story about Barrie Indie-rockers Indian Handcrafts, the topic, at the time, was that they had been added to the roster for Edgefest 2012 alongside Canadian rock acts including: Billy Talent, Death From Above 1979, and The Sheepdogs. And, for a two-piece band from a small city outside of Toronto that was pretty big news. The write-up was going to take the...
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The Bomber Jacket Interview with Russian Circles'...
This afternoon I was aimlessly walking around downtown Chicago. The well-to-do and bejeweled middle-aged women were in abundance, walking their dogs. The new-moneyed 20-somethings were running around in their business suits looking for something important to do. The obvious tourists with their street maps were standing puzzled at the street corners. Suddenly from out of the blue, deep, dark...
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Rolling Stone Exclusive Full Album Stream: The...
The new album Noctourniquet from The Mars Volta is now streaming in full exclusively at Rolling Stone. Pre-Orders for the first and limited edition version of the Noctourniquet VINYL with 3-D lyric sleeves and glasses plus limited edition Poster is now ONLY available at the Rodriguez Lopez Productions Store HERE will ship on or around May 28th. Then only limited amounts will be going on to...
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Good Old War's Come Back As Rain Debuts at #1 on...
Eternal thanks to everyone that supported Good Old War and bought their new album Come Back As Rain, making it’s debut at #1 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart! Thank you all so much.
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Thanks Pro-Mark for Endorsing John Clardy of Tera...
We love when great instrument makers back great music makers. Thanks Pro-Mark for adding John Clardy of Tera Melos to your family of endorsed artists.
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Chelsea Wolfe Performs "Halfsleeper" Acoustic at...
Chelsea Wolfe plays “Halfsleeper” from the album The Grime And The Glow acoustically at a SXSW live session for Dangerous Minds.
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INDIE WIRE: SXSW '12 I Omar Rodriguez Lopez -...
In addition to his rock-star duties as the guitarist for The Mars Volta, Omar Rodríguez-López has technically made seven movies, but he won’t let you see most of them.
The eccentric musician-filmmaker (formerly of At the Drive In, which recently announced plans for a reunion at Coachella) has worked on movies with a close-knit group of friends in Mexico, but has only allowed the last two...
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Esquire Magazine & NPR "Best of SXSW" Deafheaven...
Deafheaven My NPR colleague Mike Katzif called Deafheaven “the Sigur Ros of black metal,” and he’s right on the money. The San Francisco band’s music heaves and builds and pummels majestically, and then singer George Clarke lurches defensively and shrieks angrily like a mother hawk protecting her young. Brutal and bracing, with a shoegazing indie-rock band’s ear for...
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Good Old War "Amazing Eyes" & Interview from SXSW
Good Old War stopped by the Best Buy studio at SXSW and performed a new song Amazing Eyes for them, then sat down for a chat about the new album.
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The Dropp On The Record with Deafheaven
Who: Deafheaven vocalist, George Clarke Where: San Francisco, California
Why: Deafheaven is a California metal band dead-set on fusing together influences from black metal to post-rock, which places them among the ranks of Wolves in the Throne Room, Ludicra, Alcest, and many more. Carrying a deft precision for atmospherics and sweeping 10-plus minute songs, they also have a vicious tendency to...
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KUT.ORG : SXSW Picks For Friday 3/16
Holy smokes. Could it be that we’re approaching the finish line after one long and amazing SXSW week? Not quite. We still have the weekend, and there are many more bands to check out. You do have the Austin Music Minute to assist you in making at least a couple of decisions on what to see. Granted, the selections are endless, but it’s good to have a starting point somewhere, especially if it’s...
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Los Angeles Times SXSW 2012: Omar Rodriguez Lopez...
When Omar Rodriguez Lopez picks up an electric guitar with The Mars Volta, his playing is usually defined by its otherworldly, psychedelic effects. But as a producer-director picking up a camera for his latest film, “Los Chidos,” his artwork has medicinal properties that are more akin to ipecac than acid. That is to say, he’s more interested in purging and exposing the worst parts of reality...
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TWITCH : SXSW 2012 REVIEW: LOS CHIDOS IS A...
Leave it to Omar Rodriguez Lopez to create one of the wildest, most innovative, and full on challenging films of the year. As a founding member of The Mars Volta, Rodriguez Lopez helped define a brand of progressive hard rock music known for its wild, innovative, and challenging nature. In LOS CHIDOS, Rodriguez Lopez shows he just about has the directing chops to be the force on screen he has...
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Native Live from Pittsburgh
Native performing a new song off of their upcoming 2012 album. Taken in Pittsburgh, PA at The Smiling Moose. Filmed by David Summers
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This Town Needs Guns : Australian Tour Video...
This Town Needs Guns made a short video of their trip to Australia for Harvest Festival, made by friend Chris Baker. It features a track off our new album, and also something from our new electronic album entitled ‘People Also Like Fudge’ (…ok, maybe not). New This Town Needs Guns Album coming on Sargent House this Fall 2012 !!!
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Remezcla Q&A: Eureka The Butcher
A few weeks ago, we introduced you to El Paso-based Low Ends mixer Eureka The Butcher, Marcel Rodríguez-López’s new solo project, also a member of Zechs Marquise, and keyboardist of The Mars Volta. He played a handful of shows in southern California that same week with his girlfriend, and apparently now a new member of his latest project, belly dancer Sadah Luna. I got the chance to talk to both...
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Guitar World Video: Good Old War's Dan Schwartz...
These videos were just sent our way, and were too cool not to post. This is Good Old War guitarist Dan Schwartz breaking in a new banjo with “Master of Puppets” and “Cowboys From Hell.” Enjoy!
Good Old War’s latest album, Come Back As Rain, is out now on Sargent House Records.
“For this record we all sat down and took a hard look at everything in the song...
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URB: Premiere of Good Old War's "Amazing Eyes"...
The SXSW season can often find people in our profession inundated with different sights and sounds as the festival approaches. A level of ear and visual fatigue has been known to drive more than one writer I know batty whenever any festival of this size and caliber approaches. In the sea of remixed sub bass, lyrical overload, and ‘electro-hop’ progressions that can be a part of the daily...
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Sargent House is the Itunes "Indie Spotlight"...
Sargent House & Rodriguez Lopez Productions titles are on special sale at Itunes in their “Indie Spotlight Label Feature” - All this week go catch up on some of our albums you might have missed with titles from: Russian Circles, Adebisi Shank, Fang Island, Good Old War, Gypsyblood, Hella, Le Butcherettes, Red Sparowes, RX Bandits, Tera Melos, Zach Hill, Boris, And So I Watch You...
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Modern Drummer: Zach Hill's Death Grips Drum Cam
Check out this footage of Zach Hill playing the song “Lost Boys” from Death Grips’ upcoming album The Money Store. According to Zach, “The album track started with a live drum take, so when playing to it live, I’m actually playing and improvising over myself. I’m not using in-ear monitors; it’s pretty a raw setup. I’m keeping time by what’s blasting out of the monitor.
“The song is in 4/4 for...
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Russian Circles Announced to play Sled Island...
Russian Circles were announced today to be playing the Sled Island Festival in Calgary, Canada on June 20th. Stay tuned a few more Sargent House bands to be announced for it as well. It’s gonna be a good year for Sled! See all Russian Circles Shows & Details HERE
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Good Old War's "Come Back As Rain" Is Out Today!...
Good Old War’s - Come Back As Rain is out everywhere today! Thanks to Itunes for featuring Come Back As Rain in your Singer Songwriter section. The Deluxe version of the album has 3 bonus tracks and a bonus Acoustic version of “Amazing Eyes” only available at Itunes. And! Good Old War have the featured FREE Indie Spotlight Download of the week for the song “Can’t...
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Big Sir Announce Free Instore Performance at...
Amoeba Music’s MONDAYS IN MARCH series continue on March 19th with a FREE all ages in-store performance and signing with Big Sir. Their new album, Before Gardens, After Gardens, is out now on Rodriguez Lopez Productions / Sargent House. Big Sir at Amoeba Music March 19th at 7pm FREE / All Ages
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Australia's Rock Godess Bianca Has a Little Q&A...
<a href=”http://indianhandcrafts.bandcamp.com/album/indian-handcrafts” data-mce-href=”http://indianhandcrafts.bandcamp.com/album/indian-handcrafts”>Indian Handcrafts by Indian Handcrafts</a> Canadian duo (Brandyn James Aikins and Daniel Brandon...
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LOS ANGELES: KICK OFF TO SXSW March 9th at The...
Los Angeles, join us as we bid a short farewell to Deafheaven and Marriages on March 9th at the Smell before they head off together, touring their way down to SXSW where we will then meet with them again. This show is All Ages and damn if the Sargent House crew won’t be there in full force! Also loving on this whole lineup! Whirr and DNF bring it. LIST OF ALL DEAFHEAVEN SHOWS LIST OF ALL...
Good Old War - Free In Store Show Schedule - Don't...
Good Old War will be playing some free in store shows. So make sure to stop in and say hello. A few more will be added to these listed below, so stay tuned we will post the information as we get it. AND don’t miss them out on their Headlining Tour dates including two shows at SXSW all in support of their new album “Come Back As Rain” out on March 6th on Sargent House!
GOOD OLD...
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American Songwriter Reviews: Good Old War "Come...
Good Old War / Come Back As Rain (Sargent House) out on March 6, 2012
There’s a pure simplicity to Good Old War’s music that’s hard to resist. The band builds its lovely acoustic-based music out of gorgeous harmonies, gently-played guitars and light percussion.
The opening track offers a perfect example of what Good Old War does so well. “Over and Over” serves up airy vocals, strummy acoustic...
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Chelsea Wolfe / LA Shows / SXSW / European Tour
Chelsea Wolfe will be playing two Los Angeles shows this week, the first on Monday, March 5th a FREE in-store performance and signing -(Yes! finally she has CDS of both albums) at Amoeba Hollywood at 7pm. Then on March 8th she will play Ceremony’s album release show along with Nails and Suburban Moms at the Center of the Arts in Eagle Rock. Then it’s on to Austin for SXSW where she...
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Deafheaven USA SHOWS IN MARCH / SXSW / TOUR WITH...
Deafheaven will be playing some shows down to SXSW with new Red Sparowes off shoot band Marriages and Nick Bassett ( the touring Guitar player in Deafheaven’s) main band Whirr . While in Austin they will be playing a Day show for Pitchfork’s Show No Mercy at ND Studios on March 14th and for Brooklyn Vegan & Power of The Riff at Scoot In on March 16th, then they will play that same...
